Collector Babu A. expressed displeasure at the tardy progress of works to be taken up in 11 hospitals with the District Innovation Fund (DIF), at a review meeting on Saturday.
The DIF is to be used for replacing obsolete machinery with new ones and getting defective ones repaired but the fund remained largely unutilised.
Civil and medical equipment was to be procured with the money available under the DIF but nothing much happened on that front while patients bore the brunt of infrastructure constraints, Mr. Babu observed.
A sum of Rs.1.40 crore has so far been made available under the DIF for the purpose. Purchases were not made as per rules and there was lack of coordination between the hospitals’ administrators and other stakeholders, he said.
Penal action
The Collector said he would like to see progress in the next three weeks lest he should take penal action against those responsible for wastage of the funding available under DIF.
He instructed the superintendent of Vijayawada Government General Hospital (GGH) M. Jaganmohan to hold the hospital development committee meeting on April 30 and take the works forward.
He wanted other hospitals to follow suit at the earliest.
Siddhartha Medical College Principal R. Sasank and GGH executive engineer R. Praveen Kumar were among those present.
He expresses displeasure at the tardy progress of works in 11 hospitals
